This was after KCCA took over the market management following a September 2020 presidential directive to the Authority to repossess all markets and abattoirs which the president said were being mismanaged by private groups. KCCA effected the directive two months later in November 2020 abolishing the management structures set by the vendor group and instituting an interim committee that would work with KCCA.
ASP Mugarura told court that in 2012, while serving as the Officer in Charge OC Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID of Kabarole Police Station, he encountered a notorious criminal gang that was robbing people’s properties across Uganda and started off an operation to have it investigated and brought before the law, but was instead being obstructed by his superiors who were in connivance with the criminals.
